Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-01 | Page 4 | Offer Work to Camp Lewis Men

OFFER II TO CAMP LEWIS MEN l Railway Will Give Employ-i Employ-i ment to All Electric Linemen Line-men Discharged. CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash., Xov. I 30. Tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway will give employment to all the J electrical linemen this camp can supply! when tho men .are demobilised, accord- , infj to advices received hero today from ! officials of the railway. These men can be used immediately in the work of converting the road from steam to electricity elec-tricity in tho west. Tho road is the transcontinental pioneer pio-neer in the electrification of its lines, land the request for men is taken to i indicate the work will be rushed to cniu-! cniu-! plot inn with ail speed. Various rat-'S of pav are offered ihe electrical wnrk-1 wnrk-1 'Ts bv the road, but all are on a hih jba-cU." Profits made by various company and unit enterprises, such as exchanges und savings accounts from mess funds, are causi n;; much concern for officers here of ore an i nations t hat first will be demobilized. de-mobilized. Iu the depot brigade some companies have hundreds of dollars ou hand. The money cannot be divided among the men, and when they are disbanded, if any remains, it must revert re-vert to-the government. Some organizations also have pianos, phonographs and other property for the amusement of the men, which' must be sold or otherwise disposed of. It is believed be-lieved most organizations will spend their funds on dances or banquets. Only two deaths shown in' the weekly healtli report today make the past week tho best from the health standpoint in two months. Influenza, with sixty-seven cases this week, also showed a decrease of 30 per cent from last week. There were eighteen cases of measles, twenty-two twenty-two of mumps and one of scarlet fever, j There were '221 cases of pneumonia re- : ported, but neither of the two deaths ; were from this cause. Many of these ; pneumonia cases were laic in behijj re- ; norted and should have appeared on : previous reports. The pneunnni-i also is of a very mild form, medical officers said. i